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If a file contains “binary” data (which I’m guessing is what you mean when you say it looks like an archive), it’s not an ASCII file and wouldn’t usually be named with a .asc extension. To export your key in this format, from your keyring rather than an existing file (thus ensuring it contains the correct data), run
If your file associations are set up correctly, the application that's meant to open your .asc file will open it. It's possible you may need to download or purchase the correct application. It's also possible that you have the correct application on your PC, but .asc files aren't yet associated with it.
gpg --output public.gpg --export SOMEKEYID && \ gpg --output - --export-secret-key SOMEKEYID |\ cat public.gpg - |\ gpg --armor --output keys.asc --symmetric --cipher-algo AES256 The last approach is ideal if you want to create a physical back-up of your public and private keys to safeguard against a disk failure when no other way exists to regain access to your keys.
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I want to share it with a third party. They are asking me to share it in .asc format so that they can import it into their pgp keyring. I asked them if they can use the .cer file that I am sharing. But they are insisting that they need a .asc file. I am not able to find any command that will convert the .cer file to .asc for me. –
I have a file secret.asc containing an ASCII-armored (i.e., plain text and starts with -----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----) PGP/GPG secret/private key, and I would like to know its 40-character key fingerprint without importing it into my GPG keyring.
gpg --import OSSEC-ARCHIVE-KEY.asc Authenticate the file. Now you can cryptographically verify the file exactly matches the one published and signed by the author. gpg --verify ossec-hids-2.9.3.tar.gz.asc 2.9.3.tar.gz Attention: Be sure to always list both the detached
Have a look inside the .asc file, you will see it starts with:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- So this is a PGP Signature. It means it signs some content with some specific PGP key. 1) The content. Based on the name, the content is the file .txt, it is the list of files corresponding to the software to download and each file has its corresponding ...
.asc is used for various PGP files (messages, keys). The extension comes from the fact that they're "ASCII-armored" (Base64), while .pgp or .gpg are raw binary formatted ones. It is basically the PGP equivalent of .pem files.
$ gpg --verify ffmpeg-0.10.10.tar.bz2.asc gpg: Signature made Tue 05 Nov 2013 08:44:09 PM EST using RSA key ID D67658D8 gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found Note the key ID above, D67658D8. That's a hexidecimal string so it's typically written later on like this: 0xD67658D8. Use this command to import ffmpeg's GPG key from a key server: